ICOGRADA HONOURS ROY CLUCAS WITH ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Johannesburg (South Africa) - On 20 September 2006, Icograda presented Roy Clucas with an Icograda Achievement Award at the first annual think conference held at the University of Johannesburg.

Johannesburg (South Africa) - On 20 September 2006, Icograda presented Roy Clucas
with an Icograda Achievement Award at the first annual think conference
held at the University of Johannesburg. Clucas is one of the iconic
figures of design in Africa, who has been an active influence for
literally generations of professionals engaged in design, very broadly
defined.

In his introduction to Clucas, Icograda
President Jacques Lange said. "The Icograda Achievement Award honours
an outstanding career. On behalf of the local design community, the
South African Graphic Design Council (think) put forward this
nomination to the Icograda board. Making the decision to bestow this
recognition was easy and it seems particularly appropriate to be making
this presentation at an event, hosted by an organisation with which the
recipient has close ties since its formation and at a time when the
Icograda Board is visiting the country. While the award is voted on by
the executive Board of Directors, it is a celebration by all of our
members in 57 countries."

Roy Clucas has been
practicing graphic design in South Africa, New York and Paris for
nearly 40 years. His work has represented both small and large
companies across a wide spectrum of industries and institutions.

Roy's
career began in 1968 at Young Advertising. In 1971 he became a founder
member of Grapplegroup, a studio that rose to avant-garde prominence
before members of the group relocated abroad after the 1976 political
upheavals in South Africa. In New York, where he worked for a year in
1978, his major clients included Diners Club and the Metropolitan
Museum, while his interest in music and fashion were expressed in
projects that would be considered innovative or radical even today. Roy
then moved on to Paris where he worked as a creative director on
Chrysler Simca Talbot's pan European marketing design programme. In
1981, Roy formed an independent company (Eclectic Studio Paris), which
handled projects for Christian Dior and various other fashion,
publishing and advertising houses.

Back in South Africa
his clients for brand graphics and design development work included
SAB, Nedbank, MNet, PPC Cement, Illovo Sugar, Independent Newspapers
and more recently the innovative positioning for Joburg's waste
disposal / environmental management utility, which he named PIKITUP.

In
2001 Roy, along with two colleagues, formed RCDP, Roy Clucas Design
Process, which is where he now focuses his energy and creativity.
Published in journals and books in the USA & Great Britain, he was
one of only three South African designers featured in a book entitled World Graphic Design by Professor Geoffrey Caban in 2004.

From
book and publication design, to design promotion on behalf of NGO's
Design South Africa and think, to various judging committees including
the Loeries, Spadas, think ahead and Fuji awards, Roy has been a well
known figure in the design world for many years, dedicated to raising
the profile of design and developing the profession. Roy also has
close ties with Icograda. In 1997 in Punte Del Este, Uruguay, he
represented South Africa and co-presented the country's bid at the
Icograda General Assembly to host the 2001 World Design Convergence
Congress. For the next few year, he worked energetically at promoting
the 2001 Congress.

He served a three year term as
President of Design South Africa which is now amalgamating with many
other design discipline bodies to form the Design Council of South
Africa, fulfilling Roy's long held conviction that South Africa would
be best served by such collaboration and unification.

Roy
continues to remain active in various industry initiatives and is a
longstanding promoter of representative design bodies and interests,
both locally and internationally.